Information communicating member, liquid container having information communicating member and liquid ejecting apparatus

Abstract

An information communicating member is adapted to be disposed on a liquid container for supplying a liquid to a liquid ejecting head of a liquid ejection apparatus. The information communicating member includes: an information storing portion storing therein liquid information with regard to the liquid contained in the liquid container; an antenna portion for communicating the liquid information stored in the information storing portion between the information communicating member and the liquid ejection apparatus in a wireless manner; and a base member on which the information storing portion and the antenna portion are disposed. The base member has an electric insulating property and an ultraviolet ray shielding property.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to an information communicating member capable of transmitting and receiving information with regard to a liquid contained in a liquid container to and from a main body of a liquid ejecting apparatus by wireless communication. The present invention also relates to a liquid container having an information communicating member and a liquid ejecting apparatus to which a liquid container is mountable. [0002] As a liquid ejecting apparatus for ejecting a liquid to a target, there is known an ink jet type recording apparatus for printing by ejecting ink drops from a recording head to a record medium. Such an ink jet type recording apparatus ejects small ink drops from nozzles of the recording head to the record medium to thereby record a desired image of a character, a diagram or the like. [0003] The ink jet type recording apparatus is provided with the recording head and an ink cartridge. The ink cartridge contains ink to b...

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Benefits of technology

[0019] Thereby, the electric insulating property of the base member can prevent electrostatic breakdown of the information storing portion and the antenna portion. Further, the ultraviolet ray shielding property of the base member shields ultraviolet ray and therefore, the information with regard to the liquid stored in the information storing portion can firmly be prevented from being erased (evaporated).

[0057] Thereby, since the connecting wire portions electrically connecting the sensor terminal portions to the information storing portion are aligned in parallel with each other, the connecting wire portions is almost or completely free from an influence of radio wave from the recording apparatus on which the liquid container is mounted and / or an influence of radio wave from an apparatus other than the recording apparatus.

Problems solved by technology

The former system in which a signal is transmitted upon direct contact as disclosed in JP-A-2001-71469 suffers from a problem of an electric contact failure.

However, the latter system suffers from a problem that stored data is erased when ultraviolet ray is irradiated thereto.

Further, the non-volatile memory and the antenna are attached to a surface of the ink cartridge and therefore, there poses a problem that by static electricity generated by the human body or static electricity generated by a mechanical portion, the antenna (antenna circuit portion) and the non-volatile memory (also referred to as IC chip) and a sensor terminal provided as necessary are subjected to electrostatic breakdown.

However, if a distance between the two connecting wire portions is wide, noise of radio wave from a main body side of the ink jet type recording apparatus, or noise of radio wave of various apparatuses disposed outside of the ink jet type recording apparatus may be superposed onto a sensor signal transmitted through the two connecting wire portions.

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